Bed
Definition of Bed
| n. | 1. | An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction from the bedstead on which it is placed (as, a feather bed), or this with the bedclothes added. In a general sense, any thing or place used for sleeping or reclining on or in, as a quantity of hay, straw, leaves, or twigs. | | 2. | Used as the symbol of matrimony) Marriage. | | 3. | A plat or level piece of ground in a garden, usually a little raised above the adjoining ground. | | 4. | A mass or heap of anything arranged like a bed; as, a bed of ashes or coals. | | 5. | The bottom of a watercourse, or of any body of water; as, the bed of a river. | | 6. | (Geol.) A layer or seam, or a horizontal stratum between layers; as, a bed of coal, iron, etc. | | 7. | (Gun.) See Gun carriage, and Mortar bed. | | 8. | (Masonry) The horizontal surface of a building stone; as, the upper and lower beds. | | 9. | (Mech.) The foundation or the more solid and fixed part or framing of a machine; or a part on which something is laid or supported; as, the bed of an engine. | | 10. | The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad. | | 11. | (Printing) The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid. | | v. t. | 1. | To place in a bed. | | 2. | To make partaker of one's bed; to cohabit with.I'll to the Tuscan wars, and never bed her. - Shak. | | 3. | To furnish with a bed or bedding. | | 4. | To plant or arrange in beds; to set, or cover, as in a bed of soft earth; as, to bed the roots of a plant in mold. | | 5. | To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or inclosed; to embed; to furnish with or place upon a bed or foundation; as, to bed a stone; it was bedded on a rock. | | 6. | (Masonry) To dress or prepare the surface of stone) so as to serve as a bed. | | 7. | To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position. | | v. i. | 1. | To go to bed; to cohabit. |
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